Varieties of Dirac equation and flavors of leptons and quarks
| dc.creator | Wang, Ruo Peng | |
| dc.date | 2001-07-17 | |
| dc.date | 2001-07-29 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:44:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:44:58Z | |
| dc.description | I show that there exist twelve independent Dirac equations for spin 1/2 fermions. The Dirac fields that satisfy these equations can be grouped into six pairs according to the way they transform under continuous space-time transformations. These six pairs of Dirac equations correspond to the three quark generations and the three lepton generations. The charged V-A currents can be formed only from fields of the same pair. This property of the Dirac fields implies that a quark or lepton may be transformed only into its partner of the same generation via the charged-current weak interaction. According to the properties of the charged-current weak interaction, I conclude that different elementary fermion fields must satisfy different Dirac equations, and there may not be more than twelve flavors of elementary fermions that are already known. | |
| dc.description | 5 pages, RevTeX | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0107184 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0107184 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/40778 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.title | Varieties of Dirac equation and flavors of leptons and quarks | |
| dc.type | text |